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2009

How do you measure influence on Twitter? While follower count is perhaps the most obvious metric, other activities, like the numbers of times you’re retweeted, provide a bit more insight. Along those lines, INQ Mobile has just released their 2009 Twi...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Apple has a history of holiday-themed ads. Who can forget those old Mac ads from the early 1990s, or the animated "I'm a Mac" series? This year, Apple has decided to take its "There's an App for That" campaign and dress it up for the holidays, "Twelv...

If you're planning on seeing Avatar in theaters this weekend, you are not alone. Both Fandango and MovieTickets.com are reporting that a huge percentage of tickets purchased online have been for the James Cameron-directed sci-fi epic. How huge is hug...

This post is part of Mashable's Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous Uni...

YouTube this week released the most-viewed videos of 2009, with Susan Boyle topping the charts. Also in the top five: David After Dentist, JK Wedding Entrance Dance, the New Moon Movie Trailer and Evian Roller Babies. Is there a formula for these vir...

The gifting season is nigh, and with about a week to go for holiday shoppers, the home-stretch can be grueling if you're still crossing people off your list. Out of ideas? Looking for a deal? Well, you've come to the right place. From Fail Whale T-sh...

The Onion's hilarious Today Show-style parody, Today Now, has made us guffaw with instant Internet classics like the faux segment on how to stalk your kids using Facebook and Twitter. This time the social network in the limelight is social media's lo...

First toddlers, then copulating newlyweds, now the elderly -- everyone is tweeting nowadays. With the help of a service called Celery, those who do not own computers can convert their handwritten letters and notes into e-mails and tweets via fax mach...

What do Julia & Julia, PostSecret and Stuff White People Like have in common? If you answered, "They're blogs," you are correct (collect your fabulous prize -- our undying respect and love). If you answered, "They're books," you are also correct (ple...

We know that Facebook considers Twitter a threat to its web supremacy. We also know that the company's been taking a lot of action to squash its upstart rival with an array of new features and changes that make it more like Twitter. The world's large...

One of our favorite Google tools, Google Translate, not only talks and translates in real-time, but it's been integrated in a wide variety of Google services, including Google Reader, Gmail, and most recently, Google Toolbar. Now Google has announced...

Bit.ly, as the world's largest URL shortener and default for Twitter messages, has thousands of links passing through its doors every day. Because of that, it has a great deal of data on what's hot and what's popular on the web. Now the company is fi...

Do you remember Google's Android mobile OS a year ago? Back then, it was just launching its app store and releasing the first phone powered by Android, the T-Mobile G1. Fast-forward to today. Two days ago, Android surpassed 20,000 apps. Not only that...

Update: Twitter says that its DNS records were compromised. Please read our latest update. - Not long ago, we received reports that Twitter was hacked. If the screenshots are any indication, someone got past Twitter's defenses. The apparent organizat...

Update: An update from the Twitter status blog: "Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon." - We're still in shock over what has ju...

MySpace, The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum have announced their second annual contest to send a citizen journalist to Davos, Switzerland. The user will be a special correspondent at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010. It'...

Some more details about Google and HTC's iPhone killer, the Nexus One, have emerged. Tnkgrl Mobile has had a chance to play with the handset for a while, bringing some interesting insight both in terms of what the phone can and can't do. She wasn't a...

Two separate reports -- one from AdMob, the other from Impress -- show that Apple's iPhone is not only huge at home in the U.S., it's also conquering foreign markets, especially Japan. The AdMob Mobile Metrics report for November 2009 highlights the ...

In September, PostRank launched its Analytics service, which allows website owners to track data about how their visitors are interacting with their content, both on their site and across social media channels, and how that data correlates to the sit...

Statistically speaking, it would seem that Facebook had the best year of major companies in the social media space, considering it now has more than 350 million members, eats up 5 percent of our collective Internet time and may be approaching $1 bill...

If print is dead, Esquire magazine isn't going down without a fight. The Hearst publication has readily embraced the digital age -- first with its E Ink cover in 2008 and most recently with its augmented reality issue. Now the magazine is going one s...

To prove that real people really do like their new gum, Trident's decided to try something unconventional with their latest ad in USA Today. The full-page color spread, headlined "The People have Tweeted," highlights tweets from users who have digita...

This week, we reported that the newly released Zune application for Twitter hates "naughty words". Translation: It censors you when you use explicit language by adding the all-mighty asterisk in place of the identifying characters. Yesterday, Engadge...

Sarah Evans is a public relations and new media consultant and speaker at Sevans Strategy. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 (also known as the Media Shield Bill) re...

Rdio is the super-stealth streaming music startup from Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. While few have actually experienced the service, Music Ally discovered that the company already has an iPhone app. The free -- but members-only --...

Despite working at a tech blog, some of us over here at Mashable admit to typing with only two fingers (although others brag of achieving 80-105 wpms). That's why, after watching this video of little Mackenzie ripping through a typing test with a sco...

We were left practically speechless by the quality of Dragon Dictation, an iPhone app that does instant speech-to-text transcription. The same company has just unveiled their latest iPhone offering -- Dragon Search -- and it's just as impressive as t...

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Although there is hardly a shortage of desktop Twitter clients, the native client options for Mac users remain more limited. A few weeks ago, Realmac Software introduced Socialite 1.0, an app that manages Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds and more. Now an...

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